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does anyone have a link for Sean Mirrsen's "all economic stones" minimod? I have looked everywhere on this site and can't find it....

I have it bookmarked.

http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=18944.0

Best. Mod. Ever., imo.

Designating certain flammable items - in particular, wooden items, but perhaps also cloth - as a fuel substitute (even at a 1/2 or fractional increment like the smelter) would be a much better solution than wasting additional fuel to get rid of your items.

It would also allow you to farm fuel via plant fibers on maps that lack wood, coal, or magma, where you'd otherwise be forced to burn imported wood.

It wouldn't be very efficient - quite the opposite - but it would provide an alternative, and provide a reason to expand your normally tiny farming operations.


EDIT:
Also, if you could turn, say, ten units of plant fiber cloth into one of charcoal, elves suddenly become a whole lot more useful.

Hollow cannon-balls with gunpowder inside is what's know as a mortar, and a working one wouldn't be invented 'til after the cut off date.

That's a shell, actually.

Wiki sez the first explosive shells used in Europe were fired from mortars(which is actually a type of artillery gun), however.


And personally, about the most advanced I'd like to see explosive use in DF become(if it must be implemented) is demolition charges, for mining or traps.

Although you could maybe implement your own cannon by constructing a short hall(iron block walls/floors, maybe?), open at one end, with a demo charge at the closed end and a pile of rocks/narrow iron armour/whatever next to it, the opening facing an enemy's only approach, and the charge linked to a pressure plate or switch. Or something like that, depending on how things work out.

Maybe fireworks, too, for trade, happy thoughts, and setting things on fire.

The thing is that you'd have to shell out a LOT of money for it to be worthwhile at all to the caravan. Like someone else mentioned, the caravan has to make money based on the distance traveled (and difficulty of doing it), not just a profit based on the value of the goods sold. A caravan trekking across the desert to give you water is going to expect a lot in return even if the water isn't worth much.

A barrel of water shouldn't cost more than a barrel of very cheap booze - in terms of shipping, they're functionally the same.

skull totems

No-bin skull totem stockpiles line my protected roads. 

Most [Tame] animals also shouldn't attack dwarves, even when starving to death("...so...many...wardogs..."), and you'd maybe want to add some way to better control the cat population('neuter tame animal' job?  ...hehe, 'neuter goblin thief' ).

Chained and penned animals can be fed via meat stockpile, I suppose.

My plan is to have it set up as such. Dwarves dump it down channel. It falls onto a spot that has a Stone Stockpile on it. This is directly behind a Mason's workshop. I'll only dump decent rock.

Microline and shit like that is taking a long dump off my short magma Pier.

Manual Stone Selection - Best. Mod. Ever.

Makes all stone economic so you can enable or disable any given type of stone for general use.

Enjoy.

It says it is on some wiki page or something.

Probably got it mixed up with dumping stuff into pits/magam/etc.